Hallmark v. State

FOSTER, J)

The indictment contained two counts. The first count charged the manufacture of prohibited liquors; the second count charged the possession of a still. There was demurrer to the first count on the ground that it stated the offense in the alternative and failed • to specify what constituted the liquors or beverages therein mentioned. The first count charged, in the words of the statute, that the defendant “did distill, make, or manufacture alcoholic, spirituous, malted, or mixed liquors or beverages, some part of which was alcohol,” etc. The second count charged that the defendant…